Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
Part One Balkan Geographies
Chapter One Exodus
Sarajevo: Little Jerusalem
Two Peninsulas: The Sephardic Diaspora
Singing the Community: Music of the Sephardim
Opening Out: Themes and Developments
Chapter Two Ecologies
Music and Place
Ringed by Mountains: The OaΕ Country
On the Voice: The Dinaric Alps and other Mountains
Deep in Ε umadija
Chapter Three Displacements
Investing in Place
Migrations: Serbs in a Habsburg World
Trading Places: Greece and Anatolia
Tallava Rules: Kosovars in Macedonia
Chapter Four Ecumenes
In the Minority
All Together in Vojvodina
Orchestrating Thrace
Chapter Five Centres
All in the Family: Mapping Montenegro
Finding the Centres: People and Traditions
East β West
Part Two Historical Layers
Chapter Six A Makam-Echos Culture
Grand Narratives
Byzantine Reflections
Ottoman Canons
Chapter Seven Eastern Recessions
Allahu Ekber
Coffee Break
Turning West
Chapter Eight Infrastructures
Littoral Balkans: Venice and the Adriatic
Mitteleuropa: The Reach of the Habsburgs
Reciprocities: Modernising the Peripheries
The Principalities and Beyond
Chapter Nine Nations
The First Steps
Two Nations
The Berlin Balkans
Yugoslavism
Chapter Ten Inspirers
Building the Pyramids: Reflections on High Culture
Greeks . . .
. . . and other Agents
Either/Or: Reflections on Modernism
Part Three Music in Transition
Chapter Eleven Mixing It
Discourses of Transition
Nuts and Bolts: Elements of Popular Music
On the Record: Surveying the Legacy
Chapter Twelve Join the Club
Following the Leader: Manolis Kalomiris
Drawing the Circle: The Greek National School
Another Way: The Failure of Greek Modernism
Chapter Thirteen Moderna
Garlands: Stevan Mokranjac
One People, Three Names: The First Yugoslavia
Late Arrivals: Croatian Modernisms
Parallel Tracks: Bulgarian Advances
Transit to Prague
Chapter Fourteen Serbo-Croat
Who Owns Slavenski?
From the Balkans . . .
. . . to the Cosmos
Chapter Fifteen Placing Genius
A Tempting Comparison: Locating George Enescu
Closing In: Enescuβs Journey
Wider Again: In the Modernist Canon
Part Four Eastern Europe
Chapter Sixteen The Curtain Descends
Left, Right . . .
In Extremis: The Singular Case of Albania
Administered Music: Performing Communism
Composers on Message
Chapter Seventeen Diverging Paths
Traffic with Moscow
The Acolyte: Bulgarian Bridges
The Zealot: Albanian Austerities
The Maverick: Romanian Renewals
Chapter Eighteen Another Try
Politics versus Culture: The Second Yugoslavia
The Dark Decade: Mainly Serbia
In from the Cold: Mainly Croatia, a Little Slovenia, and Back to Serbia
Catching Up: Other Republics
Chapter Nineteen Birthright of the People
Orchestras: Classicising Traditional Music
Newly Composed Folk Music
Simulacra: Wedding Music and More
Chapter Twenty One Got Away
Popular Art Music: Theodorakis at Large
Art Music: Modernism is Official
Popular Music: Rebetika and Beyond
Part Five Global Balkans
Chapter Twenty-One All Change
Brave New World
Another Balkans: The Diasporic Imagination
Composers in Exile
Chapter Twenty-Two Conservation
Who Needs Classical Music?
Has Modern Music Really Grown Old?
Where Have All the Folksongs Gone?
Chapter Twenty-Three Balkan Beat
Heroes
Re-Inscribing Yugoslavia
Divas
Greek Mythology
Chapter Twenty-Four On Boundaries and Events
In Theory
Greece and its Neighbours
Music Partitioned . . .
. . . and Not Quite Partitioned
Chapter Twenty-Five Endgame
Degenerations
Generations
Balkan Ghetto: The Story of Kosovo
Are We There Yet?
Glossary
References
Index